Bortolotti: How Do Parents "Commodify" Their Children?

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Bortolotti: How do parents "commodify" their children?
Parents “commodify” their children when they regard them as means for achieving something else as opposed to objects with value in themselves. To this end, some parents regard children as a means for status achievement, or an object for boasting as opposed to the view that a child’s life has value in itself. Some parents commodify children by viewing them as a way of enhancing the variety of one’s life experience.
Etieyibo: What are "wide-ranging distributions" concerned about?
“Wide-ranging distributions” are concerned that the universal distribution of enhancement procedures would result in colossal and unexpected socio-economic problems. That is, the availability of enhancement procedures would extend life expectancy signi...